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Or without sacrifice. to this day americans grieve the loss of three brave astronauts of apollo 1 who were lost in a fire on the launchpad in january 1967. we think of them and their families even today. the risks for apollo 11 were so great, the odds were so long, that many fear that even if our astronauts made it to the moon they might not make it back. in fact, history records that president nixon prepared a speech in the event of tragedy, where he would explain to the nation that the vision ...

Selflessness and sense of adventure and wanting to be part of this amazing adventure. some of them never made it. >> its a high risk venture, space exploration. neil armstrong thought they had a 50/50 chance of it being successful. these guys were being shot up in space like that. not one thing could go wrong. yet the first apollo, apollo 1, blew up on the launch paid in 1967. we loss gus grissom, ed white, roger chafe y. but future missions went for the ward because they wanted to fulfill the m...

Credit for keeping it going. >> martha: you told me something i didnt know. what they left for the cosmonauts on the moon. >> yeah, we left a packet. buzz said did you leave a packet? he left medals commemorating our apollo 1 dead, and also medals honoring soviet cosmonauts that died. so theyre on the moon right now at a sacred american site and dead cosmonauts. >> will we go to the mars and moon? president trump and vice president mens have talked about it. >> both. we have the private sector w...

Than her fair share to this country. this weekend, many of us will be going to see the new movie "first man" about the life the life and accomplishments of neil armstrong that won the "apollo 1" mission and became the first man to walk on the moon. as the movie trailer already shows us, the film will deal with the death of the crew of apollo one, the first mission of the new apollo capsule. the three were killed while in the capsule and on the launch pad by a flash electrical fire. there was no ...

Really means a lot. fate played such a big part in my life over the last 80 years, 81 tomorrow, by the way. and nostalgia. when i walk through the cemetery at arlington, i say why, why me? why not? why are they here -- brings back a lot of memories. >> neil: i dont want to give it away. the cemetery youre referring to, a lot of the astronauts and heros that died before you. you were visiting the apollo 1 fire victim. that was at a time when most thought the apollo program was finished. you and y...

Different this time? we wont see another 9/11 because, well its different time. or another meltdown in stocks because that was a unique set of events at that time. or another market bubble because, well, we learned from the last market bubble even though we didnt. even though history shows we tend to repeat history, the folks that insisted 150 years ago that we would never leave a u.s. president so exposed. even though three more times we did. or those who insisted after world war i that it wasn...

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Mission that -- then we had the apollo one fire that could have changed the apollo program but almost as if a greater force was guiding you was guiding all the others who would later go on followup missions and ultimately reach that goal. >> you know as i said a minute ago, fate played a major role for just the reasons youre talking about. but having been to the moon twice, the first time i came back and i came back with a quote its just too beautiful to have happened by accident. went back to t...

Funds, but at that time, i wasnt yet working at nasa when the apollo one accident happened. i was hired to work on the staff of dr. george miller, the manned space flight administrator. nasa needed to have a total review of the deficiencies that the 204 review board raised and take corrective actions. to do that i attended daily meetings led by the apollo program director also, together with the house and senate oversight committee members, we melt with the apollo contractors, including north am...

Couple of our colleagues, werent sure whether or not we were burying the entire apollo program, but i think its a tribute that we lost apollo 1 on the 27th of january 1967 and we were back in the air with almost an entirely rebuilt spacecraft in october of 1968. the rest is history. >> we still got on the moon before the decade was out and you wrapped it up for news apollo 17. we came close to seeing that budget hacked away after that incident, and you were somehow able to convince those in powe...